Al Seckel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.
-- Al Seckel

#Meaningful #Impact #Movement
I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.
-- Al Seckel

#Weekend #Cities #California
I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.
-- Al Seckel

#Wall #Book #Creative
There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.
-- Al Seckel

#Thinking #Skills #People
I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.
-- Al Seckel

#Book #Looks #Way
The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.
-- Al Seckel

#Creativity #Secret #Genius
It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.
-- Al Seckel

#Libertarian #Belief #Global Warming

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
It's just a huge boost for us to have one extra playmaker on our defense. He makes so many impact plays and changes the game a lot.
The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
The thing about tourism is just that it's incredibly powerful. It's like a gun and it's incredibly easy to be irresponsible with it. And the speed of the impact that tourism can have on a place can be quite breathtaking. It doesn't take years, it takes months. That's how quickly it works. And it can be quite a bleak thing to witness.
Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

Al Seckel famous quotes

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